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Dino Names
1. Write each Latin and Greek descriptors on a card and keep
the cards separate by category.
2. Kids will pick a Color, Size, Shape, Texture, Numbers, and Animal Parts
card.
3. Kids will combine the 6 cards to make a dinosaur name.
4. Add -saurus (lizard, reptile) to the end of the dinosaur's name.
For example, one combination might be, "albi-,
grandi-, plani-, lasio-, duo-, ungui-."
These would be combined with the word -saurus, to form:
"albigrandiplanilasioduounguisaurus,"
or, in English, a "white, large, flat, hairy,
two-clawed lizard."
5. Kids can rearrange the six descriptors any way they would like.
6. Draw a picture of what your dinosaur would look like.
(G) indicates a combining form from Greek and (L) indicates a combining form from Latin.
| Colors black - (L) atri-, nigri-; (G) melano-. blue - (L) cerule-; (G) cyano-. green - (L) viridi-; (G) chloro-. white - (L) albi-; (G) leuco-. yellow - (L) flav-; (G) xantho-. |
Size dwarf - (L) pumili-; (G) nano- gigantic - (L) ingenti-; (G) colosso-. large - (L) grandi-; (G) macro-, mega-. short - (L) brevi-; (G) brachy- tall - (L) proceri-, alti-; (G) aepy-. |
| Shape curved - (G) cyrto-, gampso-. egg-shaped - (L) ovat- flat - (L) plani-; (G) platy-. hollow - (L) cavi-; (G) coelo-. horned - (L) cornut-; (G) cerato-. round - (L) circuli-; (G) cyclo-, gyro-. |
Texture bare - (L) nudi-; (G) gymno-. bearded - (L) criniti-; (G) pogono-. hairy - (L) hirsut-; (G) lasio-, trichodo- rough - (L) asper-; (G) trachy-. spiny - (L) spini-; (G) acantho-, echino-. wrinkled - (L) corrugat-; (G) rugos-. |
| Numbers one - (L) mono-; (G) uni-. two - (L) bi-, duo; (G) di-. three - (L) tri-; (G) tria-. four - (L) quadri-; (G) tetra-. seven - (L) septem-; (G) hepta-. ten - (L) decim-; (G) deca- |
Animal Parts beak - (L) rostr-; (G) rhyncho-. claw - (L) ungui-; (G) chelo-, onycho-. foot - (L) pedi-; (G) podo-. head - (L) capit-; (G) cephalo-. tail - (L) caud-; (G) cerco-. tooth - (L) denti-; (G) odonto-. |
Greek and Latin Descriptors
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